1938.71: Life as a Dance
Medals and Medallions
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1938.71
- People
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A. Stirling Calder, American (Philadelphia PA 1870 - 1945 New York NY)
- Title
- Life as a Dance
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: MEDAL-THE DANCE OF LIFE
- Classification
- Medals and Medallions
- Work Type
- medal
- Date
- c. 1938
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/230676
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- 193.56 g, 7.2 cm (2 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Reverse: ASC
- inscription: Obverse: The Dance of Life Begins Early and Goes On; Reverse: With Pleasure Pain and the Protagonist. Around edge: Society of Medalists Seventeenth Issue. A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor. Medallic Art Co., NY. Bronze.
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Society of Medalists, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Society of Medalists
- Accession Year
- 1938
- Object Number
- 1938.71
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Description
- Obverse: Female figure and baby; reverse: three nude figures struggling? Seventeenth issue of the Society of Medalists. The Fogg owns another cast of this medal, 1938.71; there are casts also at the Metropolitan Museum and the Smithsonian. The Inventory of American Art notes an unlocated sculpture entitled Dance of Life, with a "standing figure with head dropped forward and arms stretched forward over head."
Verification Level
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